Re: [PATCH] mips: fix syscall_get_nr

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Sun Feb 19 2023 - 04:03:13 EST


On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 11:43:59PM +0100, Elvira Khabirova wrote:
> The implementation of syscall_get_nr on mips used to ignore the task
> argument and return the syscall number of the calling thread instead of
> the target thread.
>
> The bug was exposed to user space by commit 201766a20e30f ("ptrace: add
> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO request") and detected by strace test suite.
>
> Link: https://github.com/strace/strace/issues/235
> Fixes: c2d9f1775731 ("MIPS: Fix syscall_get_nr for the syscall exit tracing.")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.19+
> Co-developed-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Elvira Khabirova <lineprinter0@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h
> index 25fa651c937d..ebdf4d910af2 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static inline bool mips_syscall_is_indirect(struct task_struct *task,
> static inline long syscall_get_nr(struct task_struct *task,
> struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> - return current_thread_info()->syscall;
> + return task_thread_info(task)->syscall;
> }
>
> static inline void mips_syscall_update_nr(struct task_struct *task,
> --

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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